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Peer reviewedHale, Gordon A.; Morgan, Judith S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
A new method is introduced for assessing children's component selection--i.e., the disposition to attend to a single feature of multifaceted stimuli. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cues, Developmental Psychology
Peer reviewedHale, Gordon A.; Piper, Richard A. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
These results suggest that, for the purpose of measuring children's incidental learning, materials with integrated components such as color and shape are functionally different from stimuli with spatially independent components. (Authors)
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Grade 3, Grade 8, Incidental Learning
Peer reviewedHale, Gordon A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1978
The development of capacity for attention was assessed by giving children 5, 8, 9, and 12 years of age a component-selection task with instructions to attend to one component or another, or with no specific instructions regarding the stimuli. (CM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Control, Attention Span, Elementary Education
Download full textHale, Gordon A.; Taweel, Suzanne S. – 1973
Children of ages 5 and 8 years were given one of three learning tasks: (a) a component selection problem, in which two stimulus components were redundant and (b) two incidental learning tasks, in which one component of the stimuli was task-relevant and the other was incidental. A posttest, measuring the children's recall for information about each…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Attention Control, Cues
Hale, Gordon A.; Lipps, Leann E. T. – 1973
As children grow older they show an increasing preference for classifying objects on the basis of shape rather than color. To clarify the nature of this "dimension preference," children of ages 3 1/2 to 6 1/2 years were given a method of triads test of dimension preferences, followed (after a week's delay) by a component selection task. The most…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Children, Classification
Hale, Gordon A. – 1971
Recent theoretical analyses have implied that there may be age differences in children's tendency to exercise component selection, i.e., to attend selectively to a single component of stimulus objects in a learning situation. In the present study, 6 experiments were conducted, each designed to investigate developmental changes in component…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Attention Span, Behavioral Science Research
Hale, Gordon A.; Stevenson, Edward E., Jr. – 1971
An assessment was made of 5- and 8-year-old children's performance on a short-term memory task under two auditory and two visual distraction conditions, as well as under a nondistraction condition. Performance under nondistraction was found to be superior to that under distraction (p<.001), indicating that the extraneous stimuli had a generally…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Comparative Analysis
Hale, Gordon A.; Courtney, Rosalea – 1991
This study examined the effects of taking notes in the portion of the Test of English as a Foreign language (TOEFL) listening comprehension section that contains short monologues, or "mini-talks." These effects were assessed in experimental testing sessions with students in intensive English language programs and with undergraduate and…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education
